The eleven-minute video features insight into “The Carte Blanche” concept that we’ve mentioned on the Nolan Fans Podcast. Meaning, with Christopher Nolan’s huge box office success with The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. has basically let him do whatever the heck he wants with Inception. It really is great to see such a talented director given the amount of budgetary flexibility shown here. We’ve already seen what sort of awesomeness this type of creative freedom can accomplish. (See James Cameron, Avatar).
Be warned. There are a few minor spoilers in this video. Although, it’s nothing that you haven’t heard before if you’ve read other news stories or forum posts here at Nolan Fans. Most of the detailed descriptions in this video are pure speculation. Enjoy!
Posted on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 2:14 am by TeddyBlass
Our buddies over at Cinematical recently got to talk with Joseph Gordon-Levitt about his new movie, Uncertainty. And like the good journalists that they are, they poked him about his role in Inception. Here’s what they got out of him:
Cinematical: [Inception] looks amazing. What is your character Arthur about?
I think it looks amazing too. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out. I can’t wait to talk to you about it, too, but Chris is one of my favorite artists alive today, and it’s important to him — and this project, Inception, is really his baby, it’s something he wrote all by himself, and having done The Dark Knight, which is, I think, one of the great movies of the decade, he now has the liberty to do whatever he wants, whatever he can think of, and this is what he’s doing. And so it’s really important to him that he gets to present it to his audience in exactly the way he wants to, and so he asked me, you know, “Don’t tell anybody anything about it.”
So it looks like we won’t be getting much more than that out of the stars of Inception. But one thing is for certain; Chris is passionate about this project and it shows! You can check out the rest of the Joseph Gordon-Levitt interview over at Cinematical. Thanks to Mantwiss in the forums for the tip.
Posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 at 5:27 pm by TeddyBlass
IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that Inception will be released to IMAX theatres simultaneously with the film’s wide release in conventional theatres on July 16, 2010. The film will be digitally re-mastered with IMAX DMR technology. This marks the third IMAX project for Christopher Nolan, and the debut for multiple Oscar nominee, and star of the film, Leonardo DiCaprio.
“Chris Nolan and IMAX have proven to be ideally suited to each other, and we’re very excited to bring them back together again for Inception,” said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Picture’s president of domestic distribution. “With the rapidly growing IMAX network, our IMAX audience base for this release will be significantly larger than it was for The Dark Knight, which will add to the film’s event status.” IMAX CEO Richard L. Gelfond proclaims “This is an incredible addition to our exciting and growing 2010 film slate. Chris Nolan’s unique vision combined with the talents of Leonardo DiCaprio and the rest of the cast creates the kind of cinematic event that resonates very well with IMAX moviegoers.”
This confirms that there will not be any footage shot an the actual IMAX film format, but rather that the 35mm film will be blown up to IMAX, Ã laBatman Begins.
Posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009 at 10:58 pm by TeddyBlass
Teddy Blass, Alex Haas, and guest host, Cris Mertens, discuss recent front-page new stories: Inception‘s filming in Los Angeles, the possibility of Batman 3 being 100% IMAX, Filming in Tangier, and the DiCaprio diet rumor. The three also have a movie discussion – this week’s pick: Insomnia. Please note: This podcast includes minor spoilers for Inception, Insomnia, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Moon, and Sphere. Beware of a little audio clipage – we just couldn’t keep our excitement down.
Posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at 8:31 pm by TeddyBlass
After Gary Oldman’s quote last week, many people have been eager to learn more about the rumored The Dark Knight follow-up, aka Batman 3. MTV News wasted no opportunities and decided to ask Batman Begins co-writer David S. Goyer to reveal what he could. Quick to throw water on the fire that Gary Oldman ignited at the San Diego Comic-Con, Goyer responded by saying:”Right now, Chris is involved in filming Inception, and when he finishes that, he will turn his studious gaze back to the Bat universe and we’ll see.”Goyer was a little reluctant to answer, and it seems he saw the question coming from a mile away. Was he just giving us a canned answer to cover up a possible slip by Oldman? or was he being forthright?
Posted on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 at 5:22 am by AlexHaas
In a recent talk with TotalFilm, Christian Bale suggested that he wants to break the trend of third movies not living up to expectations.
“Will we do a third movie? It’s got to be the right story. You can’t make something like The Dark Knight and then come out with something disappointing. I would like it if people say, ‘You’ll never make a good third movie.’ I say, ‘OK, let’s make a third movie in that case, let’s prove them wrong. But that’s just me. The fact is, I have to! I’ve signed up! Chris doesn’t. So I’m in a bit of a fix if he says he doesn’t want to!”
With The Dark Knight hitting $1 billion in worldwide box-office sales, making a third film better is going to be a huge challenge. Tell us your thoughts on Bale’s thoughts in the comments below. [via TotalFilm, Filmonic, forum member: dagn96]
